Disney4me Posted Thursday at 07:13 PM Report Posted Thursday at 07:13 PM The EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is BACK for 2026, and there are dozens of new items to try! Flavors from Fire One of the staples of this festival is the Flavors from Fire booth, which has been around since 2017! Here you’ll find delicious smoked and grilled eats, and this year, there are some new additions to try. Let’s go eat! Menu This year, Flavors from Fire has a returning favorite menu item, a 30th Anniversary legacy food item, and one new dish. 2026 Flavors from Fire Menu This spot is also home to the legendary Swine Brine, one of the festival’s most unique beverages. Eats First on the list is the Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer with marble potatoes, charred shallots, roasted baby peppers, and chimichurri. This is a 30th Anniversary legacy item, and you can get it for $6.99. Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer This was a new item in 2025, and we found it to be a standout for meat lovers. Reminiscent of the flavors at ‘Ohana, the beef was juicy, flame-grilled to a perfect medium-rare, and finished with vibrant chimichurri. Each skewer came with two thick cuts of beef, marble potatoes, charred shallots, and roasted peppers. The combination delivers rich, smoky, and satisfying flavors, making this one of the festival’s must-try meat dishes. Delicious Unfortunately, we weren’t fans of the beef this year. The texture wasn’t tender like last year, and it quickly went into chewy territory, being hard to chew and overcooked. However, the potatoes were soft and salty. The peppers and shallots had a strong smoked flavour and added a great crunch to the beef. While we weren’t a fan of the texture, everything was well-seasoned, and the flavors popped! Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer Also returning to Flavors from Fire is the Smoked Corned Beef with house-made potato chips, cheese curds, pickled onions, and beer cheese fondue. This has been a staple of the booth for a few years and costs $6.49. Smoked Corned Beef This tends to be a favorite of the festival, and when we had it again in 2025, we thought it was still impressive! The tender, flavorful corned beef is served atop house-made potato chips with a subtle hint of barbecue. Pickled onions and cheese curds add extra texture, while a drizzle of beer cheese fondue ties everything together. The result is an indulgent, loaded bite that’s rich and satisfying without feeling overwhelming. Smoked Corned Beef This year, the corned beef has great flavor, and texture-wise it’s not too chewy. It adds the right amount of softness to go with the chips. The chips are salty and add a great crunch to the beef. The cheese had a pretty strong flavor, but it was clustered into one area in ours, and we wish it was more evenly distributed! Smoked Corned Beef The new food item here in 2026 is the Smoked Chocolate Bread Pudding, which is made with chocolate ganache, vanilla bean-bourbon sauce, and smoked sea salt. You can snag it for $4.49. Smoked Chocolate Bread Pudding As for the texture, this was firm on the outside but extremely soft and mushy on the inside with melted chocolate chips, which complement each other. The cake itself is slightly salty, and the chocolate ganache and chocolate chips add a warm chocolate flavor. This was also a large portion size for the price, so if you’re a chocolate lover, this is a must-eat! Smoked Chocolate Bread Pudding Now, on to the drinks! Drinks Looking for a beverage? There are three options here at Flavors from Fire! The Left Hand Brewing Co. Sawtooth Amber Ale is back again at the festival, and it’s $6 for 6oz and $9.75 for 12oz. When we had this in 2023, we thought it was light on the first sip but came in heavier later on. It was fairly sour. This year, our first sip was a dry bitterness that transitioned into herbal, earthy, and slightly piney flavors. Left Hand Brewing Co. Sawtooth Amber Ale The new beverage on the menu this year is the 1000 Stories Bourbon Barrel-Aged Zinfandel for $6.50. And, of course, the Swine Brine is back on the menu! This is made with Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, apple-cinnamon cider, lemon juice, and Dijon mustard for $13. Swine Brine When we had this in 2025, we found that the Jim Beam bourbon was strong enough that you can smell it as soon as the drink hits the table, but the flavor was smoother than the aroma suggests. It had a tangy, pickled quality that might sound intense, but it balanced surprisingly well with the apple-cinnamon cider and lemon. It’s a quirky drink, but one that works. Strong and Smooth This year, the Swine Brine tasted like straight lemon juice before we mixed it, so be warned! It had a lot of that smoked meat flavor, but we didn’t taste any apple-cinnamon cider like we did last year. The drink itself just tasted like a lemon-flavored pork. Swine Brine So how did this booth stack up in 2026? OVERALL Overall, this booth wasn’t bad, but we’d probably only revisit it this year for the Smoked Chocolate Bread Pudding and the Smoked Corned Beef if we can add extra cheese, which we’d strongly recommend. The rest weren’t terrible, but they definitely weren’t for us. We may not have loved the drinks, but if you like lemon and herbal drinks, then you can’t go wrong with the drink options. If you stop by Flavors from Fire and give it a try, be sure to give us your review in the comments below! Flavors from Fire That’s all for Flavors from Fire, but there’s more where that came from! Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Food & Wine Festival! Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival? 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